----- Original Message ----- From: ""Hal Finney"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 08:28 AM Subject: Re: Interested in thoughts on this excerpt from Martin Rees
> The real problem is not just that it is a philosophical speculation, > it is that it does not lead to any testable physical predictions. > The string theory landscape, even if finite, is far too large for > systematic exploration. Our ideas, with an infinite number of possible > universes, are even worse. Physicists see acceptance of anthropic > explanations as the end of physics because there is no way to make > quantitative predictions when there are so many degrees of freedom. > I'm not so sure that our ideas are worse. If you read some recent articles, e.g.: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607227 you see that they haven't really formulated rigorous theories about measure, probabilities etc. of the multiverse. It's still very much in the "handwaving" stage. Saibal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
